Inspector General's Message

Zambia Police Service, is charged with the responsibility of maintaining peace, law and order in all our communities country-wide. In order to effectively and efficiently execute its mandate ....Read More

Community Services Directorate (CSD) was created to allow formation of several units and crime prevention schemes which were to be used as vessels on which services from the Police to the community and vice versa was to flow. It was, in other words, created to bridge the gap that existed in the past years between the institution and the members of the public. This initiative followed a realization that close relationship and involvement of members of the public in policing was key to the effective fight of crime.

This CSD was therefore created through a Parliamentary Amendment Act number 14 of 1999. It was important to create such an entity so that many gaps which existed in the one party regime were addressed